Robert Adrian

His work The World in 24 Hours, which connected artists in different cities and continents through telephone lines and radio, is considered to be one of the first experiments in online culture.

[8] One of his earliest telecommunications projects, in collaboration with Bill Bartlett, was a work that used the business computer network of the company I. P. Sharp Associates,[9] which Adrian had learned about and gained access to through fellow artist Norman White.

[10] Called Interplay, the piece was a telecommunications event that linked a dozen cities in Canada, the US, Australia, Austria and Japan on April 1, 1979.

[16][17][18] In 1982, Adrian organized Die Welt in 24 Stunden (The World in 24 Hours),[19][20] a telecommunications work that used telephone lines and slow-scan television to link sixteen cities on three continents together.

[26][8][6] At the time of his death, the Austrian minister of culture Josef Ostermayer called Adrian "einen Pionier der Medienkunst" (a pioneer of media art).